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AUGUST 10, 2024

Confluent just reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2024 (ended June 30), and the company's strong revenue growth reflected that trend. Confluent stock is trading 79% below its all-time high, set during the tech frenzy in 2021. That's near the cheapest level in Confluent's history as a public company.

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DECEMBER 9, 2023

In this way, companies can reduce their stock price by increasing the number of shares outstanding -- making their shares more accessible to retail investors. Today, let's examine a company that has executed five stock splits over its 24-year history as a public company and might be ready for its sixth: Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA).

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Helping businesses find, acquire, and grow customers, ZoomInfo Technologies (NASDAQ: ZI) and its business-to-business data platform has been on an absolute roller-coaster ride in its first few years as a public company. However, things couldn't be more different just a few years later.

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JUNE 12, 2024

This crypto ETF gives you instant diversified exposure The Bitwise Crypto Industry Innovators ETF (NYSEMKT: BITQ) was launched roughly three years ago, in May 2021. Today, there's a growing set of public companies capitalizing on crypto, and more to come," explained Bitwise Chief Information Officer Matt Hougan.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Looking back five years, starting with its early days as a public company, how much money would you have if you'd invested $1,000 in October 2019? Its stock soared in 2020 and the early days of 2021 as pet adoption jumped due to the pandemic, when many people were stuck at home. Image source: Getty Images.

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JULY 2, 2024

Growth and top-line store-level performance have slowed since Cava's first quarter as a public company when revenue soared 62% on the strength of brisk expansion and an 18.2% For starters, Cava's scalability has scored it better-than-expected profitability in every quarter as a public company. Image source: Getty Images.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

In his 2021 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, he wrote that he prefers to have 100% of his money invested in equities. And there's a good case to be made that Buffett is telegraphing a $277 billion warning that the stock market could be headed for trouble. Image source: The Motley Fool. Trouble ahead for the stock market?

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JULY 23, 2024

Shares of Serve Robotics (NASDAQ: SERV) , an autonomous sidewalk delivery company, soared 187% on Friday after artificial intelligence (AI) chip leader Nvidia disclosed via a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it owns a 10% stake in the relatively new public company. million shares outstanding.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Few public companies dominated the headlines in 2023 more than Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) , whether it was its involvement with OpenAI's Chat GPT, its successful $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, or antitrust probes. Microsoft has dealt with many antitrust concerns as a public company, paying billions in fines.

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JULY 3, 2023

It initially claimed it could produce about 29,000 vehicles in 2021 and 65,000 in 2022 during its SPAC presentation, but it actually delivered 28,677 vehicles in 2021 and 51,491 vehicles in 2022. That new division caught the attention of the SPAC Gores Guggenheim, and Polestar was spun out as a public company.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It became the first public company to reach a $1 trillion market cap in August 2018, and was the first to top $3 trillion in June 2023. billion 2018 : $72.738 billion 2019 : $66.897 billion 2020 : $72.358 billion 2021 : $85.971 billion 2022 : $89.402 billion 2023 : $77.55 over the last three years.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

It's also still a historical bargain, as the shares are still trading for less than half of their peak set in the springtime of 2021, despite being a three-bagger in 2023. Every analyst following the company expects DraftKings to post its first profit as a public company this quarter.

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AUGUST 30, 2024

Tempus delivered decent financials in its first quarterly report as a public company last week. She's been selling some of Ark's weaker investments to throw more weight behind a market winner early in its publicly traded tenure. Image source: Getty Images. Revenue rose a better-than-expected 25%.

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MAY 3, 2024

As of Friday, May 3, shares of Oatly are off 96% from all-time highs after going public in the 2021 market frenzy. While a big improvement, Oatly is still highly unprofitable and has never generated a profit over a 12-month period as a public company.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

Formerly known as IBM 's (NYSE: IBM) IT infrastructure-services division, Kyndryl spun out as an independent public company in 2021. As a separate business, Kyndryl is the world's largest provider of support for business-grade and mission-critical technology systems. Kyndryl got off to a rocky start in life.

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JUNE 20, 2023

No public company is really looking to go down the bankruptcy path, which is why it is so important for investors to pay attention when one warns that bankruptcy is a very real possibility. More often than not, these reviews are positive and a company doesn't have to say anything about them. The outlook doesn't look good.

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DECEMBER 23, 2023

In the third quarter of 2021, the company posted a net loss of $117 million. Dutch Bros faces stiff competition considering how many coffee shops there are, from small mom-and-pop businesses to large-cap public companies. Both of these multiples are lower than the company's historical averages.

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JANUARY 27, 2024

Coupang has only been a public company for approximately two years, but the results over that time have been impressive. in the fourth quarter of 2021 to 25.3% 30, 2023), the company's most recently reported quarter. Metric Q3 2021 Q3 2022 Q3 2023 Revenue $1.9 Gross margin has steadily climbed from 15.9%

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Q2 2020 $17 million Q2 2021 $48 million Q2 2022 $115 million Q2 2023 $141 million Data source: Block. If you look at Block's quarterly operating margin , it has managed to break even just a few times as a public company. Should the company regain that profitability level, the stock would be valued at 24 times earnings.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What happened Shares of recently minted public company VinFast Auto (NASDAQ: VFS) collapsed as much as 44.6% The Vietnamese manufacturer of electric vehicles ( EVs ) just went public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and soared over 100% on the back of investor hype and its low float.

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MARCH 14, 2024

A short track record as a public company Roblox is a classic example of a solid growth stock. The video game company almost doubled its quarterly revenue from $387 million in the first quarter of 2021 to $750 million in the final quarter of 2023, less than three years after it went public in March 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In the years since it went public, cloud-based cybersecurity specialist CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has been a market-beating investment for shareholders. Although the stock now trades 41% lower than its late-2021 high, it's still outpacing the S&P 500 handily since its 2019 IPO. CRWD Revenue (Quarterly) data by YCharts.

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

In the year before filing to become a public company, the social network brought in $3.7 From September 2012 through August 2021, Facebook shares were up a cool 2000%. billion in revenue. The stock price actually fell 50% from May 2012 through September of that year.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Sea faces an existential crisis Sea's revenue surged 101% in 2020 and 128% in 2021. Grab's near-term prospects look brighter In 2021, Grab's first year as a public company, its revenue rose 44% as its GMV grew 29%. The Singapore skyline. Image source: Getty Images.

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JUNE 13, 2024

In fiscal Q1 2025, it posted FCF of $322 million, and has grown this metric steadily throughout its history as a public company. Because of its relatively short history as a public company -- which has included the pandemic, the 2021 tech bubble, and the subsequent 2022 swoon -- gauging its valuation is complicated.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

Given the hype in the stock market during 2021 and the first half of 2022 it is not entirely surprising to see that the bulk of historical revenue stemmed from transaction fees. This marked the first time as a public company that Robinhood was net income positive. Image source: Robinhood Q2 2023 investor presentation.

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JULY 14, 2023

Shares traded for around $120 at the beginning of 2020, rose to a high of $443 at the beginning of 2021, and then fell to a low of $41 in late 2022. Even after a mild recovery this year to around $68, the stock recently was still down 84% from its 2021 high. However, those days are over. In Q1 2023, it was 106%.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Buffett named Greg Abel Berkshire's new chief executive in 2021 and noted that he's already essentially running the company with the exceptions of the insurance business and critical investment decisions. Fortunately, that process is already underway. Abel has been at Berkshire for over 25 years and is Buffett's protege.

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MARCH 8, 2024

2021, and increased 13% in fiscal 2021; yet, only grew 2% in fiscal 2022 as its post-pandemic slowdown was exacerbated by inflation, higher freight costs, and supply chain disruptions. 2021) and rose 24% in fiscal 2021 as pet owners bought more products online during the pandemic.

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MAY 28, 2024

While there have been a handful of stocks throughout the years that have gone on to be wildly successful following a reverse split, most investors are rightly chasing after companies conducting forward-stock splits. Businesses enacting forward splits are often out-innovating their competition and have outperformed the benchmark S&P 500.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

For a company as well-known as Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB) , it's hard to believe that it's only been a public company for less than three years. Q2 2021 Q2 2022 Q2 2023 83 million 104 million 115 million Data source: Airbnb. As the name suggests, this is the clearest indication of the use of the Airbnb platform over time.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

Another factor to consider is IonQ's brief life as a public company. Its IPO occurred in 2021. IonQ's limited public history makes it difficult to gauge how it can perform over the years as the quantum computing industry evolves. These factors contribute to IonQ stock experiencing a lot of volatility.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

million $1,600 million 2021 15.0 Here's what that's looked like since going public in 2015. But ideally, companies should create more than $1 of long-term shareholder value for every $1 they spend. With this in mind, I believe it's fair to be critical of PayPal's capital allocation as a public company.

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MAY 26, 2024

Yet, when the company presented just before going public in early 2021, it wasn't even listed as a potential future market. Nothing is certain, but notably, the company has cleared analysts' earnings estimates every quarter as a public company.

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JUNE 23, 2024

Bill Holdings in one chart Bill has been generating strong revenue since it became a public company in late 2021. It's an asset-light business with a high gross margin that came in at 83% in the third quarter. However, its share price is falling.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Atlassian (NASDAQ: TEAM) is the enterprise software company behind popular platforms like Jira and Confluence, which help organizations boost productivity. Atlassian stock was trading at a price-to-sales (P/S) ratio of around 50 when it peaked in 2021, which was incredibly expensive. That's near its cheapest level as a public company.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Since its inception as a company, more than $800 billion has been transacted on its platform. Revenue growth for Shopify has remained consistent throughout its time as a public company. Recently, it has been in the mid-20% range for most quarters. The bottom line has been more of a struggle.

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